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Ok so you lost the B-21 contract. We’ll compensate you by giving you 10-20 billion $ for that plane we said we didn’t need more of and cost too much – what’s it’s name? oh yeah F-22.
And we’d like to take this opportunity to thank your lobbyists for that $10,000 contribution to our reelection campaigns.

Quantifying "Pilot Shortage":
The only source for the number of "active" pilots is the FAA.
"Active" meaning those with a current medical who haven't requested that the FAA not list their addresses in the FAA data base.
Having even an accurate number for the number of "active" student, private, commercial, or ATP pilots is of course useless without knowing what the openings/demand is for each license (read commercial and ATP), which is pretty much unobtainable.
Sooo, one has to plot the history of those numbers.
In doing so I found the following:
1) In March, 2001 the FAA stopped including pilots who had only a glider and/or only a rotorcraft rating in the statistics for private, commercial and ATP licenses and added them to the "other" category.
This resulted in an approximate increase in the "other" category to 29,596 from 16,200 for an 83% apparent, but not actual, increase of pilots in this category.
This in turn resulted in a reduction of ATP listed pilots by

The FAA is just another gumnt bureaucracy. Like most they start out with a valid purpose, do a decent job, but over time become only interested in increasing their size, income and authority. There should be a 20 year rule (The Sunset Law) "Any organization in existence for 20 years shall be disbanded". - This would work well for congress.

Stall warning off with decreasing airspeed/increasing pitch, on with increasing airspeed/decreasing pitch.That's the answer.
It would be confusing to any pilot who didn't understand that about how the Airbus is programmed.